The Ordinary's Ascent

Information

Status

Hiatus

Year

2024

Author

Queen of death

• Chapter 2: A Taste of Home
  Nov 1, 2024
• Chapter 1: The Quiet Life
  Nov 1, 2024

Reviews

Community Reviews(5)

• HyenasRoyal Road

  ★★★★ 3.5

  This story had a lot of possibilities, but it stopped in the middle. I'm really sorry about that. I would raise the rating if it started up again and stayed good to the finish.
  It did seem "evil father" heavy. That was disappointing and frustrating.
  The intro chapters gave one impression of the story (Indian computer programmer) when most of the story wasn't. I prefer the tone promise to be clearer by the end of the first chapter.
  There was a lot of heavy info dumping early on, especially about the gods. I had to skip that.
• Mauday97Royal Road

  ★★★★ 3.5

  it is well written, but the pace is a little slow, and gods prologue feels out of place
  the mc, in his last life got the courage to move away from his loving family, and here she refuse to do anything, even when she got her class, she is just following her fathers orders, who she doesn't like.
  i tried to continue to read, to see if she will do something, but all she do is complain, think she will do something, but continue with the status quo.
  Ps. English not my main language
• SparifankerlRoyal Road

  ★★★★ 3.5

  The first four chapters, before the isekai, are a strong start. I really like how the author builds up the character in his original world first. Unfortunately, after the isekai it devolves a bit into an info dump. The adaptation struggles aren't fully worked out, instead we do get 5 chapters about the history of the gods. The new world is described as a patriarchy with strict gender roles by the isekai'd main character but the few glimpses we see don't support such a clear classification. It would be far more reasonable if the main character was to discover this step by step. I would recommend to show more, tell less. Also, there are minor incongruences. For example, there is "[...] Lyra, the Guardian of Paths and Freedom. Lyra was as wild and free as the winds [...]" according to info dump on the gods which doesn't really match the strict gender roles as described. As another example, it is described that the gods grant everyone the most suitable class so a woman with a fighter class or a man with a nurturing class should be just as accepted as as anyone else. The language is well written and I can easily imagine that this is going to be a great story if the author does a small rewrite after the Writathon.
• Mona Whitestone AuritRoyal Road

  ★★★ 3.0

  The story is very readable. By that I mean it really flows nicely. I breezed through the first 11 chapters without so much as feeling it, that's how smooth it was.
  I won't critique the spacing, because I know that this websites editor loves to either space everything apart or mush everything together. No in-between.
  That being said, when I reached chapters 11, I felt like I ran face first into a wall. The plot completely lost me. And for that I mainly blame the lack of correct information as to what's going on.
  I love that we find out the character is Indian or somewhere from that region of Earth, by all the details that the author put in describing the cooking scenes. But besides that, we know absolutely nothing about the guy. He basically the average working class guy, absolutely grey and mundane, anxious and without any other traits besides being isekai cannon fodder. You know the type, salaryman that dies in the introduction episode.
  Still, the switch between third person to first person was incredibly surprising and refreshing. I really liked it. It made the protagonist somehow more interesting. To be honest, if the story is about him growing a spine and asking his coworker out, learning how to control the room during his manager meetings, I'd read the hell out of that book. It's a goldmine.
  When he gets iced by an unspecified vehicle of unknown origin, he really accepts it pretty fast. There is very little describing the thoughts, feelings and overall surprise of being reincarnated into an already living body, especially that of a medieval 10 year old. He misses his mom, but he gets over it in a split second. He feels bland and lifeless, and such is his reaction to his own death. I don't get the feeling of looking at a man that just got his life taken from him by an unspecified vehicle of unknown origin. There is no rage, no anger, no sadness. Nothing that shows he laments the life he lost, even if that life wasn't much. A brief moment of guilt cuz his mom wil
• furball tigerRoyal Road

  ★★★ 3.0

  The first few chapters are ok, if very, very slow and more of a "mood piece" than story per se, but interesting and mostly decent. I like that sort of thing more than most, to be honest.
  Truck-kun does a brief cameo, and the reader might find their hopes rising...but alas.  After that, it slows way down, and feels like a student padding their essay to hit a word count while including as little content as humanly possible. Whole groups of chapters could safely be replaced with a line or two.
  There's an aggressively generic mythos, which takes up a ton of chapters of infodump, just to really make it worse.
  The MC is not exactly passive, but is incredibly timid and ineffective (both before and after transmigration).  That'll probably improve, eventually, but I just couldn't wade thru any more.
  To give you an idea of how useless the MC is, after whinging about the sexist society but not seeing any options, she is offered a personalized OP class exactly suited to her, one great enough it required some divine horsetrading. Nah, not enough, can't do anything. And she's offered the personal guarantee of a deity that everything will work out fine. Nah, idk, can't do, she waffles. Honestly, at this pt the deity oughta give her a slap, and move on to a better prospect.
  It jumps between first person POV and third person POV quite a bit.  The tone and voice drift a fair amount; some chapters were pleasantly melancholy, others were just dry as dust. I did like the recipes but without some hint of spice ratios they're not really useful (and they're all things I used to make often; but it did inspire me to go thru the chore of dusting off my southern Indian cooking skills. Great food, but a lot of prep time!).
  The local society is sexist, oppressive, and clearly designed to rub readers the wrong way (the whole point is for the MC to rebel and find her own path, which is great).  Sadly, the MC is a wet dishrag so far, so we have to put up with the local sexist and abusive nonsense f